Though the week began with various governments warning against travel to Japan and a tsunami alert that affected businesses of most of the beaches along the Pacific Coast, tourism at many other places across the globe remained as usual. Click on Start to view travel photos from around the world.
The four-day Cheltenham Festival 2011 culminating with the Gold Cup, began on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Gloucestershire, western England, which attracted thousands of visitors.In picture: Ruby Walsh rides Hurricane Fly during a workout on the gallops at the Cheltenham racecourse.REUTERS/Eddie KeoghA Brazilian court has ruled that 36-year-old female accountant Ana Catarian Bezerra can legally masturbate at work and watch port on her work computer citing chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality.REUTERS/Sergio MoraesItaly witnessed the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification on March 17, 2011. The celebration featured March 17, 2011 Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic squad's performance over the Vittoriano monument on Piazza Venezia in Rome and military parades.REUTERS/Stefano RellandiniThis week governments around the globe questioned the use of nuclear power as Japan's attempts to avert a meltdown at one of its plants eroded confidence in nuclear energy and put more focus on the renewable industry. Despite the radiation risk speculations in Japan, Brazil's Angra dos Reis nuclear complex had a opposite scenario with tourists being spotted taking pictures in front of the complex, which is located 240 km (150 miles) from Rio de Janeiro.REUTERS/Ricardo MoraesThe three-day Basel carnival in Belgium began on March 14, 2011, attracting spectators and tourists to the street celebrations. Carnival revelers, shown in the picture, carrying illuminated and decorated canvas lanterns marched to the tunes of drummers and piccolo players in a parade through the streets of Basel. The Morgenstreich parade traditionally kicks off three days of events marking the Basel carnival. REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannThe "Doraemon" hot air balloon piloted by Hedaaki Ito of Japan floats over Malaysia's landmark Putra Perdana, the office of the Prime Minister, in the capital of Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur on March 17, 2011. Putrajaya is hosting 27 hot air balloons from 14 countries in the 3rd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta until March 20 that is expected to attract tourists. REUTERS/Bazuki MuhammadDancers from the Moulin Rouge in Paris perform their traditional Cancan outside the cabaret on March 16, 2011.REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
